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Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School named best building at Dezeen Awards China 2023

Deezen

Originally a heavy oil power plant, the building had been officially retired due to environmental protection and urban development and became an industrial relic. The eclectic building was originally designed by civil engineering firm Atkinson & Dallas. "It

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Line by Line

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Jubail is a major industrial center; in fact, it is one of the largest industrial cities—and was once dubbed the largest civil engineering project—in the world, since its designation as a focus for Saudi industrial development in 1975. After industry comes quality of life in the era of urban development.

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University of Arkansas Community Design Center Proposes Downtown Housing Regeneration Scheme

Architizer

I was always intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s pattern language #160 “Building Edge” in which he implores us to “treat the edge of the building as a ‘thing,’, a ‘place,’ a zone with volume to it, not a line or interface with no thickness.”

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